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The third and fourth scenarios involve a stock transfer between two
warehouse-managed storage locations. Specifi cally, they involve a goods issue
from and a goods receipt to warehouse-managed storage locations. Therefore,
WM processes are triggered at both the goods issue (sending location) and the
goods receipt (receiving location).
Finally, in the fi fth scenario materials are moved from one bin to another
within the same warehouse. This is an internal transfer and thus does not
involve IM. Consequently, a transfer requirement is not automatically gener-
ated and therefore must be created manually. After it is created, the rest of the
WM process steps are completed as in the other scenarios.
Note that in the fi rst four scenarios, material documents are created when
IM activities (goods issue and goods receipt) are involved. In contrast, the last
scenario does not involve any IM activities, so no material document is created.
Also, the fi rst four scenarios may result in a fi nancial impact. If so, appropriate
FI documents are created. In the last scenario, there is typically no fi nancial
impact, so no FI documents are created.

Demo 7.8: Internal warehouse transfer

ORDER OF POSTINGS IN WM AND IM
The scenarios considered in the preceding section are summarized in the fi rst
two rows of Figure 7-33. Goods receipt postings for purchase or production
orders trigger putaway activity in WM. Delivery documents (for sales orders)
and production orders trigger picking activity in WM, which are followed by
goods issue postings.

Figure 7-33: Scenarios for WM and IM activities

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